The MBA Student's Job Seeking Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Land a Great Job by Graduation

By Elizabeth Freedman

The MBA Student's Job Seeking Bible provides practical tips, do's and don'ts, and plenty of hands-on examples, exercises and strategies that are specifically geared to help the MBA job seeker get hired. This includes:

What to say in a voice mail or email to sound professional, persuasive..and
get a response!
How to perfectly position your resume, every time
What "networking" really means, and you'll get a detailed,step-by-step guide for how to make contacts and keep them
How to get a foot in the door to a company, even when you know nobody
Special strategies designed for international MBA students

The user-friendly guidebook format allows you to answer questions, complete the exercises provided, and put your thoughts into action. When it comes to a job search, talk is cheap - our action-oriented approach will help you stay focused, stop procrastinating, and put your job search first.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456603137

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The Job Search is a Marathon

On your mark....get set……

GO!

For today’s MBA student, conducting a job search today is like running a marathon. It takes time, practice, and lots of endurance. Sometimes, the job search race can seem really, really long, with no end in sight. Even worse, it can be painful.

But here’s the good news: If you get in the race, eventually you’ll finish. Like most of us, you’ll reach the finish line, and, hopefully, feel good about your accomplishment.

Here’s the problem: Too many of us treat the job search like a series of sprints, instead of the marathon it resembles. Instead of accepting the fact that the job search is a long road and we need to start running if we’re going to finish the race (which, hopefully, ends by the time we graduate!), we take action in short bursts, stopping almost as soon as we start. Like a good sprinter, we gear up for the short race, putting all of our energy into our next interview, or dashing out dozens of resumes to employers when we’re feeling productive or panicked.

Soon, however, our energy dissipates, and we need to rest, to stop…to collapse! We’re done, spent, and don’t have the resources to devote to the ongoing follow-up, networking, and relationship-building that the job search requires. Until we realize that we’ve only got a month until graduation, and then we sprint again, trying to make up for the time and distance we lost because we stopped running. Calgon, take me away!

The job search is a marathon and the sooner you start the race, the better. Unlike a sprint, you aren’t expected to find a job in a day, make hundreds of contacts in a week, or send off dozens of resumes in a flurry of energy.

The job search is a marathon because it requires a long-term, ongoing commitment to land a job that you’ll feel good about. And that takes time. Like any self-respecting marathon runner, we know that we will hit a few bumps in the road, face a few hills, and, sometimes, get on a good roll and before we know it, we’re halfway there. But we’ve got to get in the race to win it. Start today.

A Word About This Guide

What this Guide Is

No guide or manual, no matter how good, can write your resume, draft your cover letter, or call up a recruiter to sing your praises. Unfortunately, you’ve got to do that yourself.

However, this guide can help you accomplish one thing, and that’s to help you help yourself. Throughout this manual, you’ll find many powerful tools, tips, and strategies to support you in your efforts to land the very best job you possibly can after graduation. If you use this guide in the way it was intended, you’ll have plenty of exercises, activities, and other action items you’ll need to take on a regular basis in order to have a successful job search. You’ll have good ideas that you can implement to help you network, build relationships, and differentiate yourself in a competitive job market. The key here is to take action– don’t let this guide become another dust-collector in your room. Use it!

What this Guide is Not

This guide prides itself on delivering fresh, intelligent insight in a fun, humorous way – because, let’s face it, the job search can get pretty grim sometimes. It isn’t intended to cover information on topics that are written about with such frequency– like resume writing or interviewing—that you could read a book a day on one of these traditional job search tools and still not be done by the time you graduate from business school. That isn’t to suggest that we ignore the resume or cover letter in this manual (this is a job search guide, after all!) – but simply that we take it one step further for you. While we focus on the traditional job search tools, this guide also focuses on the subtleties, the unspoken rules, and the nuances of the job search. It offers ideas about the little things that get overlooked (like how to leave a good voice mail), the big things that we all need to master during the job search (like how to network when you don’t have any contacts!), and the other things that matter to MBA students.

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